[Note: I’m holding this topic open for another week … I’m actually planning an article relevant to the topic, and would appreciate the benefit of as many views as possible on it, so that my own argument doesn’t miss any areas that it should address - TLK] “Is a Libertarian Party evil per se? Is voting evil per se? My answer is no. The State is a Moloch that surrounds us, and it would be grotesque and literally impossible to function if we refused it our ’sanction’ across the board. … if the State, for reasons of its own, allows us a periodic choice between two or more masters, I don’t believe we are aggressors if we participate in order to vote ourselves more kindly masters or to vote in people who will abolish or repeal the oppression. In fact, I think that we owe it to our own liberty to use such opportunities to advance the cause.” That’s Murray N. Rothbard, from Konkin on Libertarian Strategy, a reply to Samuel Edward Konkin III’s New Libertarian Manifesto. Discuss. And as a side note, those who prefer dead-tree editions can find the manifesto and Rothbard’s reply (as well as replies from LeFevre and “Filthy Pierre”) in a fine trade paperback edition, cheap, at www.kopubco.com/nlm_trade.html.